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They explain a little later in the article how Parks did her research: > O’Malley described a 2010 case in which Parks, after receiving a tip from a social wor

They explain a little later in the article how Parks did her research: > O’Malley described a 2010 case in which Parks, after receiving a tip from a social worker, began “cold-calling” rehabilitation centers, searching for a seventy-nine-year-old woman, Patricia Smoak, who had nearly seven hundred thousand dollars and no children. Parks finally found her, but Smoak’s physician wouldn’t sign a certificate of incapacity. “The doctor is not playing ball,” Parks wrote to her lawyer. She quickly found a different doctor to sign the certificate, and Norheim approved the guardianship. (Both Parks and Norheim declined to speak with me.)

busterarm 9y ago
Obviously I don't have all the facts, but from my read of this, Ms Parks deserves to be locked in a deep, dark, damp hole, for as long as possible.
- revmoo 9y ago
  Racketeering, kidnapping, elder abuse? Yeah.
- CoolGuySteve 9y ago
  If you read further, she did get indicted: > Last March, Parks and her lawyer, along with her office manager and her husband, were indicted for perjury and theft, among other charges. The indictment was narrowly focussed on their double billings and their sloppy accounting, but, in a detailed summary of the investigation, Jaclyn O’Malley, who led the probe for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, made passing references to the “collusion of hospital social workers and medical staff” who profited from their connection to Parks. At Parks’s grand-jury trial, her assistant testified that she and Parks went to hospitals and attorneys’ offices for the purpose of “building relationships to generate more client leads.” But I agree with you. Having lived in this country for 10 years, I am still shocked by the audacity of these kinds of legal loophole scammers and also amazed that we don't see more retaliatory murders when the legal system fails, considering how easy it is to get a gun in most of these states.
  - GigabyteCoin 9y ago
    >amazed that we don't see more retaliatory murders when the legal system fails, considering how easy it is to get a gun in most of these states You're amazed that most Americans do not resort to murder when the legal system fails them? That's why we have appeals courts. To appeal decisions by judges that you believe have failed you. Where do you come from if you don't mind my asking?
    - guelo 9y ago
      The appeals courts and all other levels of government failed these people for years until a newspaper finally took interest.
      - GigabyteCoin 9y ago
        The right answer to those failures should never be murder. The right answer to those failures is to pressure the system to change, as this newspaper article is helping to do.
        TeMPOraL 9y ago
        > The right answer to those failures should never be murder. I agree. In this particular case though, I wouldn't blame the victim if they'd consider kneecapping a proportionate response. Preying on the weak like that is deeply, deeply subhuman.
        FussyZeus 9y ago
        If this sort of thing was tried before a court system, the person would've ended up in a hole. That's why we created a justice system, because that mode of justice is not a good thing. The justice system failed them, so logically, they'd be forced to go back to putting people in holes.
        lovich 9y ago
        Not for nothing, but the US was founded on the basis that violence is just in the face of an unjust government. We can't idolize the Revolutionary War, and then turn around and tell people they should always follow the law no matter what. If we are going to assume that the government is always right and there is no reason for violence ever, then we should just do away with the second amendment. I dont think that amendment is super useful in the age of tanks, jets and nukes, but the idea of violent revolt against unjust rule is still there
- FidelCashflow 9y ago
  one with 8-12 inches of standing water in it at all times.

busterarm 9y ago

Obviously I don't have all the facts, but from my read of this, Ms Parks deserves to be locked in a deep, dark, damp hole, for as long as possible.

revmoo 9y ago
Racketeering, kidnapping, elder abuse? Yeah.
CoolGuySteve 9y ago
If you read further, she did get indicted: > Last March, Parks and her lawyer, along with her office manager and her husband, were indicted for perjury and theft, among other charges. The indictment was narrowly focussed on their double billings and their sloppy accounting, but, in a detailed summary of the investigation, Jaclyn O’Malley, who led the probe for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, made passing references to the “collusion of hospital social workers and medical staff” who profited from their connection to Parks. At Parks’s grand-jury trial, her assistant testified that she and Parks went to hospitals and attorneys’ offices for the purpose of “building relationships to generate more client leads.” But I agree with you. Having lived in this country for 10 years, I am still shocked by the audacity of these kinds of legal loophole scammers and also amazed that we don't see more retaliatory murders when the legal system fails, considering how easy it is to get a gun in most of these states.
- GigabyteCoin 9y ago
  >amazed that we don't see more retaliatory murders when the legal system fails, considering how easy it is to get a gun in most of these states You're amazed that most Americans do not resort to murder when the legal system fails them? That's why we have appeals courts. To appeal decisions by judges that you believe have failed you. Where do you come from if you don't mind my asking?
  - guelo 9y ago
    The appeals courts and all other levels of government failed these people for years until a newspaper finally took interest.
    - GigabyteCoin 9y ago
      The right answer to those failures should never be murder. The right answer to those failures is to pressure the system to change, as this newspaper article is helping to do.
      - TeMPOraL 9y ago
        > The right answer to those failures should never be murder. I agree. In this particular case though, I wouldn't blame the victim if they'd consider kneecapping a proportionate response. Preying on the weak like that is deeply, deeply subhuman.
      - FussyZeus 9y ago
        If this sort of thing was tried before a court system, the person would've ended up in a hole. That's why we created a justice system, because that mode of justice is not a good thing. The justice system failed them, so logically, they'd be forced to go back to putting people in holes.
      - lovich 9y ago
        Not for nothing, but the US was founded on the basis that violence is just in the face of an unjust government. We can't idolize the Revolutionary War, and then turn around and tell people they should always follow the law no matter what. If we are going to assume that the government is always right and there is no reason for violence ever, then we should just do away with the second amendment. I dont think that amendment is super useful in the age of tanks, jets and nukes, but the idea of violent revolt against unjust rule is still there
FidelCashflow 9y ago
one with 8-12 inches of standing water in it at all times.